Improvement in fire-blowers



J. REID.

FIRE-BLOWER.

Patented Nov.2,1875.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOHN REID, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN FlRE-BLOWERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 169,585, dated November2, 1875 application filed October 16, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN RElD, of the city,

county, and State of New York, have invent ed an Improvement in BlowerAttachments to Stoves and Grates, of which the following is aspecification;

The nature of my invention relates to an improvement in what areordinarily denominated blowers for stoves and grates; and con sists inthe construction of the same, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure l is a perspective view, showing my improvement with the twoblowers secured together. Fig. 2 is a detached view of the gauze orperforated blower. Fig. 3 is a like View of the supplementary blower.

Like letters indicate like parts in each figure.

In the annexed drawings, A represents a gauze or perforated blower, ofthe ordinary,

construction as employed on grates and open stoves, except that it isprovided upon its front face with catches a, for the purpose of securingthe supplementary blower B in place. This latter-named blower isdesigned to be of ,sufiicient size to cover the gauze or perforations inthe blower A, so that when the two blowers are in place no air can passinto the combustion-chamber, except through the usual openings below thefire and through the fire. The blower B is provided with lugs or cars12,

designed to engage with the catches a on the blower A, to secure the twoblowers together.

The employment on an open or Franklin stove of the perforated or gauzeblower has a tendency, by partially obstructing the passage of air overthe fire to the exit-flue, to produce a better combustion, while it doesnot obstruct the radiation of the heat and light from the incandescentfuel.

In starting a fire in a stove of this description, or in a grate, aclosely-fitting blower, solid in its surface, or imperforated, isemployed to close up entirely the front of the combustion-chamber, andto compel the draft to pass through the fire from below; or, if the fireburns low, such an imperforated Lblower is employed to enliven it.

By the employment of the perforated blower we have all, or nearly all,the effect of an open fire, While with the addition of the imperforatedblower, at will, we con vert the open into a close stove, where the onlyair admitted blower B, substantially as described, and for the purposesset forth.

2. The gauze or perforated blower A, provided with suitable catches orfasteniugs, in combination with the lugsor ears on the supplementaryblower, substantially as and for the purpose described. I

'3. A supplementary blower provided wit mica windows, substantially asshown, in combiuation with a gauze or perforated blower, for thepurposes set forth.

JOHN REID. Witnesses:

WILLIAM LEE, JORDAN W. Mor'r.

